• Silpha K S
• Shruthi Shree S H
• Raghavendra R

Spam messages are utilized to disperse malware, make phishing assaults, and promote unlawful items. Spam produces expenses to clients, e.g., casualties of phishing, and to arrange overseers, e.g., who provision and pay for the traffic. Several recommendations plan to distinguish and channel spam messages at the origin, limiting message engendering and lessening squandered data transfer capacity on the course from the spammer to the goal. In this work, this paper breaks down spam traffic costs for arranging administrators. This paper measure the courses crossed by genuine spam messages collected at five honeypots, and gauge spam traffic costs as indicated by the business connections between systems navigated on each course. This paper shows that stub systems are deliberately hampered by high spam traffic costs yet can participate to channel up to 79.9% of spam messages at the root. The outcomes additionally demonstrate that travel arrangements that send a ton of spam may utilize traffic building to diminish their travel costs.

Spam Traffic, Costs, Network Operators, Spontaneous messages, Honey pot case study.

"Spam Traffic Cost Analysis for Network Operators", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.23-28, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREW06004.pdf

"Spam Traffic Cost Analysis for Network Operators", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp23-28, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREW06004.pdf